Elders, Baptism, and Conspiracies
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Jimmy and Joe take today’s episode to open up a bag-o-mail and answer some listeners’ questions. Like, how does a diverse elder board handle disagreements and avoid division? What makes a baptism acceptable or unacceptable? And, what about all those hot conspiracy theories Christians are sharing online?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a podcast exploring Christian faith and practice and emails from a Reformed Baptist perspective. |
| 0:22.0 | My name is Joe Thorne, I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer |
| 0:24.8 | in St. Charles, Illinois. And I'm Jimmy Fowler, executive pastor at Redeemer Fellowship. |
| 0:29.7 | Hey! Hmm, hmm. What's wrong? Hmm. |
| 0:33.0 | What's wrong? |
| 0:34.0 | Your iPad looks different. |
| 0:38.0 | What's wrong? |
| 0:40.0 | Your iPad looks different was that? |
| 0:39.0 | What did you stop? |
| 0:40.0 | Stop? |
| 0:41.0 | Wait a minute. |
| 0:42.0 | Stop. keyboard. Yeah, track pad on it. Yeah, look at this thing. It's pretty nice, man. |
| 0:54.0 | It works really well. Yeah, I like it. Oh, look at you. I like it. Yeah, it's got the cursor and everything on it. |
| 1:00.0 | You got your Trump bumper sticker on the back. I do not have that. Oh, it's coming. Don't worry about it. You've already, yeah, you already ordered it. |
| 1:08.0 | How much do you love? You love your iPad because you use it for work, use it for ministry. I use it more than a laptop. |
| 1:14.4 | Honestly, the only reason why I use a laptop is for our audio stuff. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, yeah. For the church and for D&D, that's it. I do everything from an iPad. Now, do you preach from an iPad? You want to. |
| 1:30.8 | You know, I have not made that. I've done it before. I've done it before I've done it before like when we're traveling like to New Zealand stuff |
| 1:36.8 | conference stuff we have a lot of stuff I do it I've done I've and I because I was in New Zealand I was preaching at |
| 1:46.5 | Anthony's church in 189 church there in Taranga. Good people, good people, great people. I preach from an iPad there. |
| 1:50.6 | Yeah. Now typically I don't, don't I might I don't know I don't know if I have a lot of paper like if it's a lecture then |
| 1:59.1 | frequently I'll have notes and I'll use an iPad but I still if I'm preaching preaching I just give it a whirl at like a leadership lab at some point just to I don't first time doing it I'm not doing it up front. Yeah. No. I just I just we got to get you preaching on our video |
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